Testimony of Pinchas Pavel Mandelovitz, born in Medzilaborce, Czechoslovakia, 1932, regarding his experiences as a child in hiding in Medzilaborce, western Czechoslovakia, Banska Stiavnica, Bukovce, in the underground and other places

Testimony of Pinchas Pavel Mandelovitz, born in Medzilaborce, Czechoslovakia, 1932, regarding his experiences as a child in hiding in Medzilaborce, western Czechoslovakia, Banska Stiavnica, Bukovce, in the underground and other places Life before the war; from a liberal, religious family. Expulsion from the family home; deportation of Jews including exemption from deportation, May 1942; her father's report to the Jewish leadership about the deportation; concern over deportation due to their proximity to the border; finding a hiding place; escape to western Czechoslovakia; deportation to Banska Stiavnica; outbreak of the Slovak National Uprising; failure of the uprising and escape to Bukovce; life in Bukovce including hiding possessions in the ground; joins the underground in the forest in the Bukovce vicinity; life in the underground including digging a bunker; life in the forest with his extended family and two additional families; relations with Ukrainian partisans, deserters from the German Army; liberation. Family moves to Kosice, April 1945; aliya to Israel, summer 1949.